Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that make up DNA.

Toward the end of the 20th century, scientists developed tools that made it possible to read genomes, culminating in the release of the first draft of the human genome in 2003. This era of genomics ...

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were ...

"All but one of this lungfish's 19 chromosomes is the size of the entire human genome, so it takes a lot of energy to copy that DNA. And the nucleus and cell that encase it must be bigger." ...

The Human Genome Project, which was originally scheduled to be completed in 2005, suddenly found itself in a dramatic race to finish their genome sequence five years early. The sequencing centers ...

The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that make up DNA. Determining the sequence ...